(COMAL) A language for beginners developed by Benedict Loefstedt and Borge Christensen in 1973 and popular in Europe and Scandinavia. It has a pascal-like structure added to basic. COMAL-80 has been adopted as an introductory language in Denmark.

There is a version for the amiga and a well-supported version for the pc, running under ms-dos and microsoft windows, called UniCOMAL. Recently, it has been developed as a web-scripting language called WebCOMAL.

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There is a COMAL User's Group at 5501 Groveland Terr, Madison WI 53716, USA.

["Beginning COMAL", B. Christensen, Ellis Harwood 1982].